Supervisor Ryan Sundberg Appeals to National EPA Official on Marina Dredge Disposal | Lost Coast Outpost

Supervisor Ryan Sundberg Appeals to National EPA Official on Marina Dredge Disposal

Eureka’s public marina, silted-in at low tide.

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It’s a classic strategy: When someone tells you “no,” go ask their boss.

That’s apparently the approach being taken by Humboldt County Supervisor and recently appointed California Coastal Commissioner Ryan Sundberg, who last Monday sent an email to this man:

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That’s Jack Bowles, director of state and local relations at the United States Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In Sundberg’s email — which is posted in full below — he asked Bowles to overrule a decision made earlier this month by EPA officials in the agency’s regional office in San Francisco. Specifically, as we reported earlier this month, the EPA rejected a proposal from the City of Eureka…